Founder/CEO of Foster Care In The U.S. Inc., and aspiring Author….among other things

Born from lived-experience my organization, Foster Care In The U.S. Inc., is a direct reflection of the absence of services and resources that were non-existent when I transitioned out of the institution of Foster Care, into homelessness, at the age of 16 in Evansville, IN.

Foster Care In The U.S. Inc., is a 501(c)3 charitable organization located in Evansville, IN. Our mission is to improve the outcomes of homeless, transitional foster care, and at-risk youth and young adults. We achieve our mission through the provision of Permanent Supportive Housing, and direct-intervention services. That's the Founder/CEO in me.

The Aspiring Author in me is currently working on a seven-book YA series like nothing that has ever been written before. I know, that's what every author believes (insert eye-roll here). But, it's true. If you pick up a copy, sometime in late 2024, and believe that you have read something exactly like it, I will pay you $1,000.00 cash and sign over 50% of whaterver royalities are realized from the sales of the series; that's how certain I am that nothing like this has ever been written before, or been made into a movie.

That also makes it dam difficult to pitch to an agent who wants you to compare your book in the smashing, riveting, Query letter that you send to them, to compare your work to other titles. So, it will more than likely be self-published as I have spent the last year researching and looking for similar, or like, material to compare it to. There really and truly isn't any, and no, that's not just my personal opinion.

Literary agents want to hear things like, ‘written in the vein of,' or ‘similar to the same hardships faced by X in X’s title series.' I can't do that, because there just isn't anything, truthfully.

My futile search reminds me of what James Blish, the father of the Star Trek franchise, might have encountered when he first began shopping Star Trek back in 1967. Did he compare it to Gulliver's Travels from 1726? Hmmm…

Anyway, feel free to email me, and please visit my website link above to find out more about Foster Care and how to change the face of it from failure, to success!

As for the series…revist this page often as I will update it with a link to my author website as soon as it is complete.